Codeigniter Shield - Install and Configure

Install Codeigniter Shield

Codeigniter Shield is the official authentication and authorization framework for codeigniter 4. It provides session authentication, in which the user ID and password is stored in the session for the subsequent requests to authenticate against. Basically, it has all the features that the modern website offers.

Codeigniter in Visual Studio Code - Getting started

Getting started with Codeigniter in VSCode

Codeigniter is a PHP Framework for building robust and flexible websites. Basically, codigniter can be downloaded from official sources as a zip package and install in your system to start development. But, there are other ways to download and install codeigniter to build web applications. Here, we will demonstrate two ways to get started with codeigniter app development in visual studio code. The two approaches used here are,

1. Clone Git repository
2. Composer (tool to install packages and dependencies)